To ask for your most unhinged packing lists?

I hope she leaves a review when she goes back home with you 😀.

Our hamster. This is UK only, but we sneak him wiht us everywhere. Bit mental I know.

Okay, sorry, shouldn’t have mentioned it 🫣

I have taken an extension lead since I went to a hotel in Tuscany where they had not a single spare plug. Checked under the desk, bed side shelves which were attached to the headboard and other places you could think. I was on a tour holiday and others and they had similar issues. I pulled the plug to the standard lamp to charge things.

We had to take the tortoise on holiday with us. We got let down by someone who was going to look after her (long story, still not over it) so she had to come with us.
The amount of stuff she needed- cage, indoor run, lights, heat mat, bedding, straw etc took up more room than me! We were going UK only though, and we've taken her a couple of times since.

Logically I know this. But I'm a nervous flyer and it has a placebo effect.

My bil used to pack his head shaver. It was in an enormous and heavy case. Why he didn't spring for 15 quid and buy a smaller and lighter one o do not know.

Someone at my work pulled one of these out of his luggage in a meeting where a number of people needed to charge their laptops and explained that he always travelled with one because his wife likes to be able to plug in her hair straighteners and dryer next to a mirror and there often isn't suitable plugs to do that, which is so true. It's simple genius and I've done it ever since. Also helps in the situation where there isn't enough sockets in a room too.

I don’t think a fire blanket would save you in the event of a plane crash and it catching fire.

That’s brilliant.

I now need to look on Amazon for a carbon monoxide detector, something to cut me out of my car when it falls off the road and a fire blanket!

This thread reminds me of the guy innocently taking tools through his hand luggage 😂 I remember watching this on TV at the time. This was obviously post 9/11

My DH is a medic. He brings a spare stethoscope, finger oxygen monitor thing, otoscope and thermometer. We have used the thermometer and stethoscope once when baby DS woke up poorly in the night when we were in Dorset.

When my DDs were small … food stuff 😂 packets of mac and cheese type pasta. Things I knew they’d eat. A small beach tent. So many times we’ve been on the beach and it’s rained for a little while.

Thats nothing - try imagining what a lost suitcase with bush meat smells like when it’s been in the BA baggage warehouse a month.
Trying to get my head round someone deciding to pack half a dead monkey or antelope joints in their Samsonite..

Well Im thinking about my Spanish family members who wont eat 'UK food' and bring a load of stuff with them.

The additional benefit of the carbon monoxide alarm is that it has a test button. This can also be used as a call for help alarm too in the event of danger or attack.

l always take one of those plug in nightlight thingies with me as well. It saves stubbing your toes on bed legs or walking into a door if you go for a wee in the night and it’s pitch black.

Sink plug and a doorstop

Baby Powder for seaside trips. (The largest, cheapest container you can find) Just sprinkle over wet and sandy feet and it brushes straight off.

You see them (usually from China and SE Asia) on these airport programmes. They try to bring in a whole suitcase of dried meat and fresh noodles with meat

Coffee pot. As in espresso maker. Sorry not Sorry but we go self catering and I just need my special morning coffee. Also DP laughs at me because I must do a spreadsheet of what goes in the case !

Oooo am loving this thread!
I take a satin pillow case from home everywhere (to reduce my.hair frizz), extension lead abroad so you need fewer plug adaptors, travel washing line with a few pegs (especially handy for caravan holidays where you can't guarantee they will have a hang out the window airer thing). Also take a wine bottle stopper and decent corkscrew/ bottle opener because nothing kills a holiday faster than getting to end of stressful travel day with 2 young kids, finally unpacked and gor them to bed and then realizing you have nothing to open that lovely bottle of wine you've brought along!

LOL. Just imagine the bodily fluids on the mattress you're sleeping on and the sheets...

Wouldn’t the smoke get you

When I remember I take my big plunger if I’m staying in a French property. I live mainly in France and our plumbing is atrocious!

When went to the Alps for winter, my partner packed his 3D printer - not the small one - the big bugger!
Also :
oyster knife (and a couple of dozen oysters packed in ice).
Battery starter pack
Full tool kit
Our King & Queen mugs 😆
The dogs pushchair.
Last season he took a load of wood to build a ski rack in our rented apartment!

Used to take hours to load the van - and unload it! I’ll miss all the random stuff this season as he died earlier this year 💔

I have seen men in tears because a cafe in Majorca doesn't have Heinz Tomato Ketchup.

I am also talking people that stay at hotels and don't even look at the local dishes. They turn up their noses at it, even though never tried it.

My parents saw a box of decaf PG tips in a Spanish supermarket - €8 for a box of 40.